Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-05
TEA WITH SARAH BERNHARDT.
Warbling Der Impressions of the
National Capital.

| WASHINGTON, April 2.-Sarah Bern
self the topic OF the time wherever she
goes. Her art, her looks, her gowns, her
talk, all have positive interest. l supped
with her in Washington and listened with
fascinated pleasure to the luscious tones
OF her golden voice, waroling her impress
| stons OF the national capital. She SAYS
she would not live In Washington for
any thing in the world. at is SO triste, so
triste," she walled, clutching her garnet
colored bang despairingly, and rolled her
| sapphlre-hued eyes agoniZingly toward
the ceiling. "But the magnificent archi-
lecture" l urged. ''True," she rejOined,
but no people In tho streets Tristei
Irlste" l remember that Theresa
Teltjens, the great opera singer, spoke in
exactly the same terms at Washington
when i took her to the White House to
sing before President Grant and family.
There is splendid town here" she
SAID, but where are the people who in.
habit it? Are they all asleep, waiting for
the enchanted horn to blow 10
| wake them upP" | assured her the
| average Washingtonian was quite oapa-
BILE OF blowing his own horn, and
was indeed generally considered as
wide awake an individual as any in
America. "But the streets are as de-
serted as If there were the plague here"
she replied.
The circumstance which gives TO Euro
peans this perverted view Of Washing
toms emptiness is that which Is embodied
IN the old satire OF the magnificent dis
tances. Besides the apparent vastness of
the place, its princely architecture re-
calls the most crowded localities OF
London, Paris and Berlu, while the
stream OF humanity which ripples past
these glorious portals Is OF puny
dimensions even at the business hours Of
the day.
Sarah liked her Washington audiences.
The rapt attention with which they list
ened to every word uttered in the pieces
performed recompensed her for the lack Of
clAmorous plaudits. When she told me
that they seemed to hang as If entranced
on every syllable did not in form her that
all Washington is taking French lessons,
and was trying to comprendre, vous
savez, ceSqu' on disait. CARRIERS talk was
the most difficult to understand. tie has
a defect In his speech, and really il is q
little too much for man to speak French
and lisp both. He told me that he aD-
preciated the valEe of acting with
madame in the sense OF instruction
("comme ecOle,") but that hs dslikes
all the parts he plays. He aspires to
OHdkS5pedIes du0 luIsus6Iy AQulEob
Henry Irving.
Sarah has some beautiful dresses. On
the occasion OF the supper mentioned she
wore the exquisite mauve and pink en-
broidered satin, which is her chief toll.
cite In lie Maitre de FORCES" The train
and bodice are Of heavy heliotrope satin
EN- broidered thickly in lilac pattern.
The cut is peculiar. Square detached
train, lined with pink velvet, like the
English court model and very stately
while the bodice Is almost deshabille;
Garibaldi shirt of heliotrope crepe and
zouave jacket of the embroidered satin,
pink velvet waistbsnd.
The impression that Mrs. Cleveland
was suffering from the toothachs and
thus pr vented her from attending her
performances was conveyed to Sarah by
some wiseacre Of the kind so numerous
in Washington, who know the innermost
secrets of every household, and retail
them ad nauseum to all and sundry, in
GLIDING the press. Bernhard asked
me il it was not the CASE that Mira.
Cleveland had the teothaohe, and
told herI had heard so but that the rumor
had been denied. OLIVE LOGAN.